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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
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"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."
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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"Painting is a hobby for me."
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"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world."
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"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."
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"I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting."
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"I want to die painting."
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"I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting."
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"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over."
Night
"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
Painting
"The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see."
Illusion
"Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined."
Work
"Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see."
Illusion
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
Painting
"I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere."
Thought
"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."
Society
"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"
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